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Old 23rd January 2018, 12:13 PM
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Smashed his door in....Could they not just knock. What's the liability on this one as he's not doing anything illegal ???
They did knock, he didn’t get up fast enough, they bought him a new door.
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Old 24th January 2018, 09:47 AM
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They did knock, he didn’t get up fast enough
So the police are a bit like couriers then? ... you have 5 seconds to get to the door before they assume you're not in.

Perhaps they should leave a card ...

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SORRY WE MISSED YOU ...

We called today to raid your house but you weren't in.

We'll try to conduct our raid again tomorrow. If you won't be home tomorrow, or you would prefer to arrange for us to raid one of your neighbour's homes instead, please contact your local police station.
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Old 24th January 2018, 03:02 PM
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To be fair to the police, must be a difficult balance between "IT worker not getting out of bed" and "bad guy destroying evidence" - I suspect skewed by the fact they deal with more of the latter!
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Old 24th January 2018, 11:20 PM
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Haha

If they're anything like Yodel they'll sit in a puddle on the driveway for a bit and send you an email to say the house was successfully raided!

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Old 24th January 2018, 11:26 PM
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Yodel do time travel as well!
Toady my Yodel delivery was marked online as delivered; it actually arrived about 10 minutes later as I was typing a complaint into their online chat service.
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Old 25th January 2018, 11:57 AM
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Oh, don't get me started on Yodel!

Amazon's couriers are just as bad -- they often attempt to deliver my parcels to houses with the same door number on a different street!

Just yesterday, the Amazon courier tried to deliver MY parcel next door (the numbers are clearly marked on both doors). There was nobody in. Fortunately he knocked on my door to ask if I'd take it for them!
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An interesting new Ethereum (ERC-20) token that I figured was worth a punt:

https://www.carvertical.com/


CMC: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/carvertical/
BCT ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2561085
WhitePaper: https://www.carvertical.com/carvertical-whitepaper.pdf
Intro Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZ6w42HjJo

Total supply is about 10 billion, so the tokens are never going to reach Bitcoin prices, but I think a few dollars is possible if the project is successful.
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Old 25th January 2018, 09:39 PM
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An interesting new Ethereum (ERC-20) token that I figured was worth a punt:

https://www.carvertical.com/


CMC: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/carvertical/
BCT ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2561085
WhitePaper: https://www.carvertical.com/carvertical-whitepaper.pdf
Intro Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZ6w42HjJo

Total supply is about 10 billion, so the tokens are never going to reach Bitcoin prices, but I think a few dollars is possible if the project is successful.
Sold out already?
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Old 25th January 2018, 09:52 PM
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Hi MikkiJayne,

I have 5 or 6 computer fans from an old Dell desk side server which you are welcome to for just postage cost. An old post had a picture from memory. Message me if interested.

Cheers

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Sold out already?
Yeah, I missed the ICO too unfortunately. I just picked some up on the KuCoin exchange today: https://www.kucoin.com/#/trade/CV-BTC
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